Progress and Profit

Jan Toporowski
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Chapter 5 in Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography, 2018, pp 63-85 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Kalecki’s statistical investigations did not distract him from his attempts to explain his theories more clearly after his set-backs in Cambridge. But in a profession which increasingly aspired to mathematical precision and took for granted the reliability of statistics, his method of bold approximations occasionally followed by consideration of complicating factors was ill attuned to readers who took received theory as the starting points for enriching, even occasionally modifying that theory, and who therefore had difficulty in placing themselves at the starting point of Kalecki’s analysis.

Keywords: Kalecki; Keynes's Letter; Kaldor's Paper; Imperfect Competition Theory; Long-period Theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69664-5_5

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